Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument

This is a really big place with many great locations for photography. I have previously posted quite a few shots from various locations, especially slot canyons, within the monument. Here are a few from the last weekend.

Love the photos, it just reinforces the idea that I need to get out more.

Regarding the conversation about slots not being wet, 21 people died the 2nd week of September in the southern Utah area (one was in the Arizona Strip) in flash floods, 7 were in a slot canyon in Zion. Water is not a force to be underestimated.

Thanks you Dan for your continuing series of stunning photos in the desert SW. I recently just retired and am planning on spending a lot of photographic time there in the next few years and you are helping with that aspiration! Along Highway 12 is one of the first places I want to go back to.

Nice photos. Thanks for sharing them. The Zebra slot can be unpleasant when it's full of water. I recall a very cold swim into it. But it's not always wet. I've also been there when it's bone dry. I think the best photo opportunities are in the upper part. You get to it by climbing up and around to the left of the mouth of the slot and dropping into it from the top. You can't get too far before you encounter the pouroff, but the view and usually the light are better looking down into the slot than they are looking up it from below. This was taken with a Nixon D40 before m43 existed, but I hope it's still OK to show it.

I don't recall it being difficult to get into the upper part of the slot. But it does start to drop off pretty quickly the farther you get into it, and the pouroff is just a short way down. I can't remember if it's possible to downclimb the pouroff, only that I didn't do it. I came back out the same way I went in. Actually the slickrock area above the zebra slot is pretty cool in its own right. It's covered in more "moki marbles" (concretions eroded out of the sandstone) than I've seen just about anywhere else in S. Utah.